Sweet Memories Inc (for Q11-13) Sweet Memories Inc is a company that produces Customized Family Portraits. Preparing a Family Portrait involves 3-steps: Collect the Images and Stories, Edit, and Print. The staffing and processing times (for each employee) of the 3 steps are given below: Staffing Processing Step 1. Collect Step 2. Edit Step 3. Print 6 employees 2 employee 4 employees time 70 30 45 (seconds/portrait) Q11. What is the capacity of this process in portraits per hour? Q12. Sweet Memories Inc's owner wants to increase the process capacity and to do that she is planning to add a new employee. What will be the new capacity of the process in portraits per hour, assuming that the new employee is staffed at one (and only one) resource with the intent to maximize capacity? Q13. Suppose Sweet Memories Inc did not hire a new employee but were to reassign the tasks in such a way that 10 seconds of processing time can be removed from one step (and only one step) and added to one other step. For example, they could reduce Step 1's processing time from 70 seconds to 60 seconds and increase Step 2's processing time from 30 to 40 seconds. What would be the new capacity of the process in portraits per hour if the reassignment is done in order to maximize capacity? |